Romans 7:3 NIV

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 7:1-6

23Chapter 15JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFERomans 6:14-23 - Romans 7:1-6AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle’s thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He has brought us to self-surrender. We have seen the sacred obligations of our divine and wonderful liberty. We have had the miserable question, "Shall we cling to sin?" answered by an explanation of the rightness and the bliss of giving over our accepted persons, in the fullest liberty of will, to God, in... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 7:1-25

CHAPTER 7 1. The Law and its Dominion. (Romans 7:1-3 .) 2. Dead to the Law and Married to Another. (Romans 7:4-6 .) 3. Concerning the Law; its Activities and Purpose. (Romans 7:7-13 .) 4. The Experience of a Believer in Bondage to the Law. (Romans 7:14-24 .) 5. The Triumphant note of Deliverance. (Romans 7:25 .) Romans 7:1-3 The law is now more fully taken up. We have learned before that by the works of the law no man can be justified before God. But when the sinner is justified by... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 7:3

7:3 So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be {a} called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.(a) That is, she will be an adulteress, by the consent and judgment of all men. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:1-25

Change of "Husbands" But a Struggle for Freedom In Romans 7:1-25 we are faced with the case of a renewed conscience recognizing the claims of righteousness - or more correctly, holiness - hating evil and desiring good - while his utter powerlessness to do the good fills him with dismay and wretchedness. His is plainly the case of a soul born of God, for no unbeliever actually hates evil. The new nature in the believer, however, being the very nature of God (2 Peter 1:4) is that which gives... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Romans 7:1-6

HUMANITY AND TWO ADAMS “Wherefore” leads back to chapter 3, where the apostle is referring to the sinful condition of all men. It was by one man that sin entered the world bringing physical death as a penalty, and that all have sinned is proven by the fact that all have paid that penalty (Romans 5:12 ). To be sure the law was not given to Moses till Sinai, but as “death reigned from Adam to Moses,” it is evident that there was a transgression of another law than that written on stone, for... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Romans 7:1-6

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? (2) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. (3) So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:1-6

1-6 So long as a man continues under the law as a covenant, and seeks justification by his own obedience, he continues the slave of sin in some form. Nothing but the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, can make any sinner free from the law of sin and death. Believers are delivered from that power of the law, which condemns for the sins committed by them. And they are delivered from that power of the law which stirs up and provokes the sin that dwells in them. Understand this not of the law as a... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Romans 7:1-99

Romans 7 THE OPENING WORDS of chapter 7 direct our minds back to the 14th and 15th verses of the previous chapter, where the apostle had plainly stated that the believer is not under law but under grace. A tremendous controversy had raged around this point, to which the Acts bears witness especially Romans 15.0 . That point was authoritatively settled at Jerusalem as regards the Gentile believers. They were not to be put under the law. But was the point as clear when Jewish believers were in... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Romans 7:1-6

Freedom from the Law. 7:1-6 v. 1. Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the Law,) how that the Law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? v. 2. For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the Law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. v. 3. So, then, if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband be dead, she is free from... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Romans 7:1-6

Fourth Section.—The transition, in principle and reality, of Christians from the service of the letter under the law into the service of the Spirit under grace, by virtue of the death of Christ. Believers should live in the consciousness that they are dead to the law.—Tholuck: “Your marriage with Christ, having taken the place of the dominion of the law, necessarily leads to such a dominion of God in a new life.”Romans 7:1-61Know ye not, brethren (for I speak to them that [those who] know the... read more